Trousers hanger



Sept. 6, 1932. w. E. FELDMAN TROUSERS HANGER Filed Feb. 20, 1931 W/LL/AM E. FEL D MAN Inventor Attorney Patented Sept. 6, 1932 UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE WILLIAM E. FELDMAN, or SALEM, OREGON, Assrenon or ONE-HALF T0 ARTHURVEC'I HORST-KOTTEOF SALEM, OREGON 'rnousnns HANGER 7 Application filed February 20, 1931. Se ria1 No."517,364.

My present invention relates to improvements in trousers hangers or garment supporters, by means of which one, or a plurality of garments, such as trousers, pants,

dresses,&c. may be suspended in proper manner by the hanger to preserve their shape and to prevent wrinkling of the material of the garment or garments. While I have hereinafter referred to the hanger of my invention and described its use in connection with one or two pairs of trousers, or pants, it will be understood that the device of my invention is adapted for use in other ways and for supporting other garments or articles of clothing, as for instance a two-pants suit of clothes for men or boys.

In carrying out my invention the hanger is equipped with a suspending hook or similar device by means of which the device and garments are hung up in a cupboard, wardrobe, or other enclosure, and the device is equipped with means simple in both construction and operation for securing and releasing the suspended garments. The hanger constructed according to my invention may be manufactured at low cost of production; is compact in its arrangement; durable in use, and fashioned in such manner as to suspend-or hang the trousers in position to preserve the crease in the legs of the trousers and preserve the proper shape of the garment or garments.

The invention consists in certain novel combinations and arrangements of parts as will hereinafter be more fully set forth and claimed. In the accompanying drawing I have illustrated one complete example of the physical embodiment of my invention Wherein the parts are combined and arranged according to one mode I have thus far devised for the practical application of the principles of my invention. It will be understood that changes and alterations may be made in the device of my invention, within the scope of my claim, without departing from the prin.

ciples of my invention.

Figure 1 is a view in side elevation trousers hanger of my invention.

Figure 2 is an end view of the trousers hanger, with the aws closed, and showing by of the dotted lines the opening movements of the jaws. p

Figure 3 is a perspective view of one of the duplex, pivoted, holder frames.

Figure 4 is a bottom plan view of the de vice, as seen in Figures 1 and 2. 1

In the duplex arrangement of the hanger as shown in the drawing I utilize a single,

relatively fixed bar 1, here shown as fashioned from a bar of wood, and provided with grooves in its upper and lower faces. This central bar is provided with parallel lateral edges that co-act, as will be described, to form portions of jaws that clasp or clamp the cuff-ends or plain ends of a pair of trousers legs, when the trousers are suspended from the hanger.

1 The bar 1 is provided with a fixed frame of inverted U-shape and this frame comprises a pair of spaced legs 2 and 3 having, at

their ends attaching eyes 4, and screws or pins 5 are passed through the eyes and the bar 1 to fasten the frame rigidly on the bar; The frame is fashioned from a single piece of wire and the two legs of the frame are brought together and twisted as at 6 to form a shank that terminatesin a double-strand hook 7 by means of which the hanger may be suspended from a supporting bar or other suitable support.

At the lateral edges of the central, single bar 1 are arranged two relatively movable jaws 8 and 9, which, like the bar 1 may be fashioned from wood, as shown, or from other suitable material, and these two movable jaws co-act with the lateral edges of the bar 1 to form clamps for supporting a pair of trousers at each side of the central bar.

Each movable bar has a rigid, holder'- frame, as 10 and 11, which are of inverted U-shape, and the lower ends of these frames" terminate in pin-ends 12 that are pressed in or otherwise secured at the outer sides of the respective movable jaws. The upper portions of the frames or holder-frames 10 and 11 are fashioned as handles 13 and '14, and the single wire used in the formation of each holder-frame is provided with an off-set pair of pivot-loops or eye.s'15.-

The pivot loops or eyes are supported on 1 m (is a pivot-pin 16 which passes through these eyes, and also through alined eyes or loops 17 fashioned in the legs 2 and 3 of the rigid or main frame of the single central bar 1.

5 The opposite ends of the pivot-pin project through the eyes 17 of the mainframe and are turned or bent down, as at 18 to prevent displacement of the pin. Thus the pin is supported in the eyes 17 of the main frame, and the pin pivotally supports two pairs of pivotloops or eyes 15 of the two holderframes. The holder frames are arranged, one at each side of the hanger, and the re spective handles are pressed or pushed inwardly to swing outwardly the respective jaws, as indicated by dotted lines for the reception the trouser-ends, or for releasing the trouser-ends.

Both of the movable jaws are clamped against the single bar by means of a single spring 19 coiled about the pivot-pin 16 and preferably located at its approximate cen ter. The spring arms 20 and 21 flare outwardly from the coil, at opposite sides of the hanger and the ends of the spring arms are fastened. in suitable manner to the respective handles 13 and 14 at opposite sides of the hanger. To facilitate the attachment of the spring arms and to prevent displacement of the spring, the hannles are formed with notches, as 22, and the ends of the arms are bent around these notched or off-set portions of the handles, thereby permitting the spring to exert its tension against both of the movable jaws and normally hold them closed against the central bar 1.

As is well known, the seams at the outer sides of tne trousers legs render the legs thicker along the seam line than at other portions of the leg-bottom, and to accommodate the jaws to this increased thickness the central bar 1 is providec with notches 23 of suitable length and depth. The notches are fashioned in the opposite lateral edges of the bar, and the two movable jaws El and 9 are also provided with complementary notches 24:, 24. Two notches 232l provide a slot between the fixed jaw and the movable jaw, at each side of the central bar, and these slots receive the thickened, seamed portion of the trousers legs.

It will be apparent that either or both of the handles 13 and i l may be pressed inwardly to open one or both of the movable jaws, and the leg-ends of the trousers, either culf-ends or plain ends, may be slipped into the space between the open and closed central bar. Vfhen the handle is released the spring clamps the jaw against the central bar to retain the trousers-legs. For releasing the trousers legs, the handle is pressed inwardly, as indicated by dotted lines in Figure 2, to open the movable jaw or aws, and the released trouser-legs are withdrawn from the hanger.

Having thus fully described my invention what I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent is The combination in a duplex trousershanger with a central bar forming a fixed jaw, a suspending frame rigid with the bar. and a pivot bar in the frame, of a pair of holder-frames having pivotal support-s on the pivot bar, said holder-frames having upper portions forming handles, a movable jaw carried at'the lower end of each holderframe for co-aetion with the fixed jaw, a spring on the pivot bar, and a pair of arms on the spring, each of said arms being connected to a handle.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature.

WILLIAM E. FELDMAN. 

